2:31 PM,
Feb. 7, 2014

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Joe Lombardi watched every interception Matthew Stafford threw last year, all 19 of them, and when he was done, the new Detroit Lions offensive coordinator came away with a better appreciation for his quarterback.

"I was a little encouraged after watching that that this was not an interception machine," Lombardi said at his introductory news conference today.

Stafford's reputation for being a turnover-prone gunslinger certainly seemed warranted at times last year, when he threw more interceptions and completed a lower percentage of his passes than he had at any point since his rookie ...